The Facebook story is coming soon to a cineplex near you. Screenwriter Aaron Sorkin confirmed yesterday on a Facebook group that he is writing a movie about the founding of the popular social network.
A day after Facebook announced that it reached 100 million users around the world, Sorkin (or his assistant) wrote on the group page that he "just agreed to write a movie for Sony and producer Scott Rudin about how Facebook was invented."
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Strangely enough, Sorkin admits that he has little knowledge about the wicked ways of Facebook and saying that "my grandmother has more Internet savvy than I do and she's been dead for 33 years."
Details on what shape the Facebook movie will take are scarce at the moment, as Sorkin answered a question in the group saying, "I honestly don't know how I'm going to write the movie yet."
The Facebook movie will probably be based on the story of Mark Zuckerberg, the founder of the social network, who launched the online platform in 2004, together with his friends, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes, while studying at Harvard.
Membership to Facebook was initially restricted to Harvard students only, later expanding to all Ivy League schools and opening up to all high schools and universities across the U.S. Aaron Sorkin is known for the successful adaptation of A Few Good Men for the big screen and for TV dramas like NBC's The West Wing and Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip.
